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8 - How We Reason, Individually and in Groups

from Part III - Deduction and Cognition

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 December 2020

Catarina Dutilh Novaes
Affiliation:
Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
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This chapter presents an overview of experimental work on deductive reasoning, which has shown that human reasoners do not seem to reason spontaneously according to the deduction canons. However, there are also experimental results suggesting that, when tackling deductive tasks in groups, performance comes much closer to the canons. These findings offer a partial vindication of the dialogical conception of deduction insofar as they show that, when given the opportunity to engage in dialogues with others, humans become better deductive reasoners.

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The Dialogical Roots of Deduction
Historical, Cognitive, and Philosophical Perspectives on Reasoning
, pp. 151 - 168
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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